ABSTRACT
A decolonial feminist ethnography is an empowering, ethically engaged methodology that can address the complexities of the lived world and the complications of power in research to bring forward different worldviews, knowledges and lived experiences. Integrating decolonial feminist theory into a critical ethnography can help achieve epistemological decolonisation by enabling researchers to engage in research that challenges inequality, power and politics, and recognises the intersections of voice, place and privilege throughout the research process. In practice, this is a performed ethnography, whereby empowerment comes from the space created between the researcher and participants, where the researcher moves with the participants and engages in a dialogic performance. This chapter provides insight into the theoretical development of this methodological approach, and then, moving beyond the theory, shares how the author used the embodied performances of moving and listening to engage in a dialogue with indigenous Maya women, where power was shared and knowledge produced together.
